Yeah, just like the Bethesda acquisition & BC & Japan studio shutting down while Microsoft is growing their own Japanese one’s while Sony’s other subsidiary (Namely Sony music Japan) are either making exclusive games for the Switch (Emiya family) or completely multiplatform games (Kimetsu no Yaiba), overlapping the entire Sony gaming business with absolutely zero synergies or collaborative efforts like every single gaming company out there
lets face it, this whole shitshow pretty much began with this
While the deal itself was good (as azure is competent for gaming) Keep in mind that SIE executives (PlayStation executives) were completely blindsided by this shitty deal, so there’s a big chance that Phil Spencer (who worked hard on The gaming aspect of Azure since 2014) was pretty much present in that deal that sealed the fate of the PS brand, WHILE NONE OF PS EXECUTIVES WERE (Which is why i think Shawn Layden left)
The reason why Sony Corp HQ in Japan did this was probably either that
1-Sony’s New CEO Kenichiro Yoshida wanted SIE to move on from Platform making into eventually becoming 3rd Party.
OR
2- He’s Seriously the most Spineless CEO I’ve ever seen lmao.
LOL quite frankly all of this is a bunch of nonsense.
Kenichiro Yoshida is a really great, focused and down to earth CEO that is making Sony a really strong company financially, the whole group has never been in such a positive shape since the glorious days of the analog electronics era. If Sony in the future will be able to make more investements it will be because of this financial stability.
And it's ridiculous to think that he doesn't care about their most successful and most profitable division because of Emiya Family on Switch!!!!
(I had to google it right now....). The company is having record sales, record profits, record subscription and software sales under him.
Let's face it, some guys are really too emotionally invested into this bullshit and really insecure.
They want to feel like executives care about them or are handling the business according to what they want to see, when they want to see it.
The whole complaining about things like Japan Studio being closed (as if Sony never closed unprofitable and unsuccessful studios like Japan studio before while behind the scenes they're basically doubling the developing teams at most of their other successful studios) or the constant "Omg they need to buy an other publisher as soon as possible so that I can feel protected being part of the brand!!" is simply ridiculous.
None of this has any impact outside of a bubble of (too much) invested fans. Just like no one gives a fuck in the real world about playing with PSP games in 2021. Not to mention PSVita, that people didn't care about when the system was alive
it's all unconsequential drama.
Just like what happened with MLB today, besides the bad PR blow they were not prepared enough to foresee, this adds nothing to a problem that Sony already had and has been obviously preparing to face mig-long term behind the scenes and that is a transition to a different business model that inolves trying to be profitable with games subscription services.